Project Talent called for the testing of about 377,000 high school students from geographic areas across the nation. Putnam City High School was one of 1,200 schools to participate and the only school selected in Oklahoma. Read More

From: The Oklahoman's newsroom (2013) The Oklahoman features the Project Talent documentary | Read Original Article

AIR: American Institutes for Research | February 1, 2013 | By AIR Authors

This article, recently published in Twin Research and Human Genetics, focuses on the unique design of Project Talent, which includes twins, siblings of twins, and siblings in other families all nested within schools. The strength of this design is that by comparing twins and non-twins attending the same schools it is possible to estimate the extra-familial environmental effects that contribute to the similarity of twins. Read More

From: AIR: American Institutes for Research (2013) Twin Research and Human Genetics publishes work on the Project Talent twins and siblings | Read Original Article

Broad studies that track students over time are essential to understanding when and whether education policies and programs work, but they're also among the most difficult and expensive methods to use. Now, researchers with the American Institutes of Research are using new technology and social networking to revive a longitudinal study more than a half century after its first interviews with students. Read More

Roughly 440,000 high school students across the United States — including several at Chula Vista High School — who took part in a study 50 years ago are being asked to update their stories in a follow-up report. Read More

IN the late 1950s, I and my junior-high classmates in Bangor, Me., took a nationwide test called Project Talent. On the last page, we were asked to list our family’s income. Because my family never talked about money (something strictly forbidden by our bible, written by Emily Post), I was ignorant of a specific sum. “I checked the highest,” I reported at the dinner table Read More

From: New York Times Home & Garden (2011) New York Times Home & Garden Columnist reminisces about Project Talent | Read Original Article

Young Chris Plotts has spent his summer attending 50th high school class reunions. That makes one wonder if he has a peculiar hobby, especially when you consider he has only been out of high school for 10 years. Last Saturday night, he attended the 50th reunion of the Bainbridge High School class of 1960. Read More

Fifty years after being selected to take part in the Project TALENT study of American high school students, the class of 1960 from Bainbridge High School is being asked to participate once again. Read More

Iowa Public Radio features Project Talent

Fifty years ago, the class of 1960 was a pack of fresh-faced graduates with their hair up in Brylecreem and beehives, dreaming of the future. At that very moment, a national research institute took a snapshot of their lives. Thus began Project TALENT. Read More

"I remember taking the Project Talent tests in the high school gym over several days. According to my test scores, I did well in math and science. I was encouraged to study these subjects and consider a career in these areas."

"I spent my childhood on a small farm in rural eastern Ohio. Since age 5, following the death of my mother, I was raised with a foster family. Growing up, I was really enthralled by the world of astronomy, science fiction, and the budding space program."